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Ministry of Finance
Finance Minister Shri Piyush Goyal inaugurates India Infrastructure Expo 2018, jointly organised by Ministry of Finance, Government of India and FICCI at NCPA, Mumbai today
Exposition to showcase achievements under major national infrastructure development programs as well as related investment opportunities to investors from over 80 countries
Companies from public and private sector, state governments and central government ministries come together to present India’s ambitious infrastructure development programs as well as exhibit latest solutions, technologies and offerings in the realm of infrastructure project development and delivery
The Department of Economic Affairs, Ministry of Finance, Government of India, in partnership with the Federation of Indian Chambers of Commerce & Industry , is organising India Infrastructure Expo 2018 that will run in parallel to the third Annual Meeting of the Asian Infrastructure Investment Bank .
The 2018 Annual Meeting of AIIB is taking place in Mumbai on June 25-26, 2018 at the National Centre for the Performing Arts  and India Infrastructure Expo 2018 is being organised from June 24-26, 2018 at the same venue. Finance Minister Piyush Goyal inaugurated the exposition today.
The exposition offers companies from the public and private sector to showcase their latest solutions, technologies and offerings in the realm of infrastructure project development and delivery. Participating companies will also highlight their capabilities and key projects delivered over time for information of all delegates. Another novel feature of the exposition is the participation of several state governments and central ministries and they will be showcasing investment opportunities in their respective regions / under their national flagship programs to financial investors from across the world.
The exposition is having state of the art digital display and is offering participants ample avenues to network and have business meetings with potential partners and investors.
The highlight of the exposition is the oil & gas pavilion which has participation of leading public-sector companies who are showcasing the upcoming projects in their respective areas of operation.
Some of the key national development programs that will be showcased at this exposition include Smart Cities, Sagarmala, Bharatmala, Ganga Rejuvenation Plan and the River Linking project. Details on the modernisation plans of the Railways sector in India will also be of interest to the delegates.
Government of Chhattisgarh & Government of Gujarat are the partner states to the exposition while Government of Maharashtra is the host state to the exposition.
IIFCL etc. Over 50 organisations are participating in the exposition including leading entities such as IL&FS, Essel Infrastructure, GAIL, JSPL, Wapcos, HPCL, BPCL, NHAI, MMRDA, MIDC, CIDCO, IREDA, ONGC, Indian Oil, EIL and
Ministry of Science & Technology
Advanced Wound Dressing Material Based on Seaweed Agar can Treat Diabetic Wounds and Manage Chronic ones at Competitive Cost
An Indian scientist has developed an advanced wound dressing based on agarose, a natural polymer derived from seaweed agar, for the treatment of infected diabetic wounds and patients suffering from chronic wounds. This indigenous dressing will allow cost-effective dressings for chronic wound patients and will also pave the way for business incubation.
The biodegradable, non-immunogenic wound dressing was developed from sustainable source intervention has been developed by Dr. Vivek Verma from the Indian Institute of Technology, Kanpur by adding several additive molecules like iodine and citric acid. It was supported by the Advanced Manufacturing Technologies programme of the Department of Science & Technology , Government of India, and is aligned with the ‘Make in India’ initiative, which has bagged a National patent and has been validated and tested in-vitro and in-vivo on rat model.
The role of addition of several active molecules like sericin, iodine, and citric acid to this novel wound dressing has been evaluated along with agar in terms of their healing and containment property with regards to chronic wounds. The invention, in particular, provides agar dressing films for the treatment of infected diabetic wounds. The dressing may be used as a single layer, bilayer, or multi-layered hydrogel films depending on the severity and type of wound.
The developed intervention is in third stage of the Technology Readiness Level. At present, the dressing has been tested on rat model with small-sized circular wound of diameter 5 mm with single layer dressing incorporated with only one active ingredient.
The next step would be to test its efficacy in the treatment of large wounds in big animals like rabbits or pigs. Dr. Verma is working towards incorporation of all the active agents in single or multilayer arrangement and optimize various parameters related to it. The final stage will include clinical trials. Following these steps, the technology can be commercialized in the market as single or all ingredient loaded uni/multilayer dressing material.
According to Dr. Vivek Verma, the advanced wound dressing has potential to be converted into commercial product for advanced wound care, and it can provide an active bandage for treatment and management of chronic wounds at competitive cost.
The advanced wound dressing market in India is largely monopolized by foreign companies. This indigenous dressing will not only allow cost-effective dressings for chronic wound patients but also will pave way for business incubation.
For more details, Dr. Vivek Verma  can be contacted.
Prime Minister's Office
Need, not greed, has been India's guiding principle: says PM
Pledges to more than double India’s renewable energy capacity target to 450 GW
PM Modi addresses Climate Action Summit
Prime Minister Shri Narendra Modi addressed the Climate Action Summit's opening ceremony organized by the UN Secretary General on the sidelines of the UN General Assembly.
Speaking on the occasion, the PM said that this was the first opportunity to address the United Nations, after having received the Champion of the Earth award last year. He said that to overcome a serious challenge like climate change, what we are doing at the moment is just not enough. He called for a global people’s movement to bring about behavioral change.
He said that the respect for nature, the judicious use of resources, reducing our needs and living within our means have all been important aspects of both our traditions and present day efforts. He added that Need not Greed has been our guiding principle. And therefore India today has come not just to talk about the seriousness of this issue, but to present a practical approach and a roadmap. We believe that an ounce of practice is worth more than a ton of preaching.
He pledged that the share of non fossil fuel will be increased, and by 2022 India’s renewable energy capacity would be increased to much beyond 175 GW, and later till 450 GW. He said that India plans to make the transport sector green through e mobility and considerably increase the proportion of the biofuel blend in petrol and diesel. He added that clean cooking gas has been provided to 150 million families in India.
Shri Modi said that Jal Jeevan mission has been launched for water conservation, rainwater harvesting and for the development of water resources and approximately 50 billion dollars is going to be spent on this in the next few years.
He said that on the International forum, almost 80 countries have joined our International Solar Alliance campaign. India and Sweden together with other partners are launching the Leadership group within the Industry transition track. This initiative will provide a platform for governments and the private sector with opportunities for cooperation in the area of Technology innovation. This will help to develop low carbon pathways for industry.
He said that in order to make our infrastructure disaster resilient, India is launching a Coalition for Disaster Resilient Infrastructure and invited other Member states to join this coalition. He added that this year on the occasion of India’s Independence Day on 15th August, a people's movement to end the use of single use plastic was called for. He emphasized that the time for talking is over; the world needs to act now.
National Security Council Secretariat
Quad Senior Cyber Group Meets in New Delhi to Strengthen Cybersecurity Cooperation
The Quad Senior Cyber Group Principals, Mr Michael Pezzullo AO, Secretary of Australia’s Department of Home Affairs, Lt General Rajesh Pant, National Cyber Security Coordinator of India, Mr Masataka Okano, Deputy National Security Adviser of Japan and Ms Anne Neuberger, Deputy National Security Advisor of USA, along with their inter-agency delegations, met in New Delhi on 30-31 January 2023 to discuss the collective approach to enhance the cybersecurity cooperation and resilience.
Cybersecurity is one of the key areas identified by the Quad Leaders in advancing a free and open Indo-Pacific that is inclusive and resilient. During the meeting, participants discussed sharing threat information, identifying and evaluating potential risks in supply chains for digitally enabled products and services, and aligning baseline software security requirements to improve the broader software development ecosystem for the benefit of the Indo-Pacific region. The Group also discussed building cybersecurity capacity for Quad members and for partners in the Indo-Pacific region.
Over the last two days, this Group discussed how Quad members could prevent cyber incidents and prepare national and international capabilities for protection as well as response to such cyber incidents.
Ministry of Micro,Small & Medium Enterprises
Challenges Faced by MSMEs
In order to help the MSMEs to overcome the challenges such as formal credit, employment generation, direct selling to the Government, quality manufacturing, micro-credit access, lack of awareness faced by them, Government of India has taken several measures across the country, including in the State of Odisha which inter alia include Prime Minister’s Employment Generation Programme , Micro and Small Enterprises-Cluster Development Programme , Credit Guarantee Scheme for Micro and Small Enterprises , Raising and Accelerating MSME Performance  scheme, Self Reliant India  Fund Scheme, Procurement and Marketing Support Scheme, etc.
The Government of India has taken number of steps to meet the challenges of MSMEs to achieve the goal of five trillion economy of the country. Some of these steps include Launched the Champions 2.0 on 27.06.2023 for MSMEs, Self Reliant India  Fund for MSMEs, MSME Champion Scheme for providing assistance and subsidy to MSME, Budget 2023-24 announced the infusion of Rs. 9,000 crore in the corpus of Credit Guarantee Fund Trust for Micro & Small Enterprises to enable an additional credit of Rs. 2.00 lakh crore with reduced cost of credit, Central Sector Scheme “Raising and Accelerating MSME Performance ” aims at strengthening Institutions and governance of MSME programme at the Centre and States, and increasing MSME sector’s access to credit and market, and increasing firm capabilities through technology upgradation, greening initiatives, reducing incidence of delayed payments, Amendment in Section 43B of the Income Tax Act, 1961  vide Finance Act 2023, etc.
This information was given by Minister of State for Micro Small and Medium Enterprises, Shri Bhanu Pratap Singh Verma in a written reply to the Lok Sabha.
Ministry of Women and Child Development
Protection of Children from Sexual Offences
Section 5 sub-clause  and Section 9 of Protection of Children from Sexual Offences  Act, 2012 lay down that whoever taking advantage of a child’s mental or physical disability, commits 'penetrative sexual assault' or 'sexual assault' on the child, commits 'aggravated penetrative sexual assault' or 'aggravated sexual assault' respectively. Section 6 of the POCSO Act lays down that whoever commits aggravated penetrative sexual assault shall be punished with rigorous imprisonment for a term which shall not be less than twenty years, but which may extend to imprisonment for life, which shall mean imprisonment for the remainder of natural life of that person, and shall also be liable to fine, or to death . Section 10 of the POCSO Act stipulates that whoever commits aggravated sexual assault shall be punished with imprisonment of either description for a term which shall not be less than five years but which may extend to seven years, and shall also be liable to fine.
Section-33 of the POCSO Act under sub-clause  provides that in appropriate cases, the Special Court may, in addition to the punishment, direct payment of such compensation as may be prescribed to the child for any physical or mental trauma caused to him or for immediate rehabilitation of such child.
Rule 4 of the POCSO Rules, 2020 lays down a detailed procedure regarding care and protection, including counseling and therapy, of the victim of child sex abuse. Section-6 of the POCSO Rules, 2020 also has provision regarding providing of Medical aid and care to the victim of child sex abuse. Provision of Special Relief has also been prescribed in the POCSO Rules, 2020 for contingencies such as food, clothes, transport and other essential need. The detailed POCSO Rules, 2020 are available on the website of Ministry of Women and Child Development i.e. www.wcd.nic.in.
This information was given by the Union Minister of Women and Child Development, Smt. Smriti Zubin Irani, in a written reply in the Rajya Sabha today.
PIB Headquarters
Song and Drama Division of Regional Outreach Bureau, Ministry of I&B organizes Orientation-Cum-Workshop on Intensified Mission Indradhanush 2.0 in Chennai
Song and Drama Division of Regional Outreach Bureau, Chennai, Ministry of I&B, Government Of India, in collaboration with the Ministry of Health & Family, Welfare, Govt. of India, New Delhi and Department of Public Health and Preventive Medicine, Govt. of Tamil Nadu, Chennai jointly organised an Orientation-Cum-Workshop on “Intensified Mission Indradhanush  2.0” in Chennai this morning for the folk artistes and drama troupes.
Dr. R.Satheesh Kumar, Health Officer of Directorate of Public Health and Preventive Medicine, Govt. of Tamil Nadu, V. Palanichamy, Director , AIR, M. Annadurai, Director , DDK, Sugata Roy, communication specialist from the UNICEF took part in the workshop and sensitized the folk artistes.
The artistes will in turn, take the message to the rural areas of Virudhunagar and Ramanathapuram Districts and disseminate the importance and benefits of IMI 2.0 to attain the target of 100% immunization.
The Intensified Mission Indradhanush  2.0 was launched across India on December 2, 2019. It is a successor to the Intensified Mission Indradhanush , which was launched by Prime Minister Narendra Modi on October 8, 2017 to further intensify India’s immunisation programme. Under the mission, the Union Government aimed to reach all children aged below two years and pregnant women, who were left uncovered under the government’s routine immunisation programme.
The key objective behind the launch of the intensified immunisation drive was to ensure that no child suffers from any vaccine-preventable diseases like tuberculosis, meningitis, measles, Hepatitis B, tetanus, whooping cough, poliomyelitis and diphtheria. The vaccines for two other diseases- Hemophilus influenza and Japanese encephalitis will also be provided under the programme in certain select areas.
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Ministry of Housing & Urban Affairs
Smart Cities Mission is to promote cities that provide core infrastructure and give a decent quality of life, clean and sustainable environment to their citizens
Centre has formulated a Greenfield Airports Policy 2008 which provides guidelines, procedure and conditions for establishment of new Greenfield Airports
The Government of India launched the Smart Cities Mission  on 25 June 2015. 100 Smart cities have been selected through 4 rounds of competition from January 2016 to June 2018. 4 cities of Bihar, i.e., Bhagalpur, Bihar Sharif, Muzaffarpur & Patna have been selected for development as Smart Cities.
The objective of SCM is to promote cities that provide core infrastructure and give a decent quality of life, clean and sustainable environment to their citizens through application of smart solutions. The focus is on sustainable and inclusive development and the idea is to look at compact areas, create replicable models which will act as lighthouses for other areas in the same city/other aspiring cities. The Smart City Proposal  of each city, including those in Bihar, has been prepared through extensive citizen engagement. Since the needs and aspirations of citizens in different cities are different, the priorities and projects contained in such SCPs vary from city to city. Ensuring connectivity through airports was not envisaged as a mandatory objective under SCM.
The Ministry of Civil Aviation  has informed that Government of India has formulated a Greenfield Airports  Policy, 2008 which provides guidelines, procedure and conditions for establishment of new Greenfield Airports in the country. As per GFA Policy, an airport developer or the respective State Government willing to establish an airport is required to send a proposal to MoCA in the prescribed format available at www.civilaviation.gov.in.
There is a 2-stage process for approval of the proposal i.e. `Site Clearance’ followed by `In-Principle’ approval. In accordance with this Policy, MoCA receives proposals from the State Governments or airport developers, from time to time, for establishment of airports. After due examination, the approval for development of a new Greenfield Airport is granted. The responsibility for project implementation such as land acquisition, project funding, obtaining other mandatory clearances, etc. lies with the concerned airport developer or the State Government, as the case may be. Presently, there are 140 Operational Airports in the country out of which three are in Bihar, viz. Gaya, Patna and Darbhanga Airport.
This information was given by the Minister of State for Housing & Urban Affairs, Shri Kaushal Kishore, in a written reply in the Lok Sabha today.
Prime Minister's Office
Chandrayaan-3's triumph mirrors the aspirations and capabilities of 140 crore Indians: PM
The Prime Minister, Shri Narendra Modi has remarked that Chandrayaan-3's triumph mirrors the aspirations and capabilities of 140 crore Indians.
Sharing a post on X by Indian Space Research Organisation, the Prime Minister said:
“Chandrayaan-3's triumph mirrors the aspirations and capabilities of 140 crore Indians.
To new horizons and beyond!
Proud moment for 🇮🇳.”
Ministry of Health and Family Welfare
India’s total Vaccination Coverage has surpassed 5 cr Doses
More than 23 lakh vaccine doses given in the last 24 hours
Maharashtra, Punjab, Karnataka, Chhattisgarh and Gujarat report a spike in Daily New Cases
India has crossed a significant milestone in the fight against the global pandemic. The cumulative number of COVID19 vaccine doses administered in the country has crossed 5 crore.
5,08,41,286 vaccine doses have been administered through 8,23,046 sessions, as per the provisional report till 7 am today.
These include 79,17,521 HCWs , 50,20,695 HCWs , 83,62,065 FLWs  and 30,88,639 FLWs , 47,01,894 beneficiaries aged more than 45 years with specific co-morbidities  and 2,17,50,472 beneficiaries aged more than 60 years.
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HCWs
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FLWs
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45 to < 60 years with Co-morbidities
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Over 60 years
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Total
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1st Dose
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2nd Dose
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1st Dose
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2nd Dose
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1st Dose
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1st Dose
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79,17,521
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50,20,695
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83,62,065
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30,88,639
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47,01,894
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2,17,50,472
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5,08,41,286
As on Day-67 of the vaccination drive , 23,46,692 vaccine doses were given.
Of the total, 21,00,799 beneficiaries were vaccinated for 1st dose and 2,45,893 HCWs and FLWs received 2nd dose of vaccine.
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Date: 23rd March, 2021
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HCWs
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FLWs
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45 to < 60 years with Co-morbidities
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Over 60 years
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Total Achievement
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1stDose
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2ndDose
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1stDose
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2nd Dose
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1stDose
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1stDose
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1stDose
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2ndDose
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57,942
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60,731
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1,19,938
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1,85,162
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4,03,584
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15,19,335
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21,00,799
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2,45,893
Eight States account for 60% of the cumulative vaccine doses given so far.
Five States of Maharashtra, Punjab, Karnataka, Chhattisgarh and Gujarat are reporting a surge in the COVID daily new cases. These states account for 77.44% of the new cases.
47,262 new cases were registered in the last 24 hours.
Six states cumulatively account for 81.65% of the new cases reported in the past 24 hours. Maharashtra has reported the highest daily new cases at 28,699. It is followed by Punjab with 2,254 while Karnataka reported 2,010 new cases.
Eight States have reported a higher weekly positivity rate than the national average . Maharashtra leads with a weekly positivity rate of 20.53%.
India’s total Active Caseload has reached 3,68,457 today, comprising 3.14% of the total Positive Cases. A net incline of 23,080 cases recorded from the total active caseload in the last 24 hours.
India’s cumulative recoveries stand at 1,12,05,160 today. The national Recovery Rate is 95.49%.
23,907 recoveries were registered in the last 24 hours.
275 deaths were reported in the last 24 hours.
Six States account for 83.27% of the new deaths. Maharashtra saw the maximum casualties . Punjab follows with 53 daily deaths and Chhattisgarh reported 20 deaths in the last 24 hours.
Twelve States/UTs have not reported any COVID19 deaths in the last 24 hours. These are Odisha, Lakshadweep, Ladakh , Manipur, D&N & D&N, Meghalaya, Mizoram, Sikkim, Tripura, A&N Islands, Nagaland and Arunachal Pradesh.
Prime Minister's Office
PM greets people on various festivals
These festivals showcase India’s diversity and the spirit of ‘Ek Bharat, Shreshtha Bharat: PM
The Prime Minister, Shri Narendra Modi has greeted people for the festivals today and over the next few days. He said that “these festivals showcase India’s diversity and the spirit of ‘Ek Bharat, Shreshtha Bharat.’”
Ministry of Home Affairs
Two days State Mourning on April 26th and 27th as a mark of respect on the passing away of Shri Parkash Singh Badal, Former Chief Minister of Punjab
Shri Parkash Singh Badal, Former Chief Minister of Punjab passed away on 25th April, 2023. As a mark of respect to the departed dignitary, the Government of India has decided that there will be State Mourning for two days on 26th and 27th April, 2023 throughout India.
On the days of Mourning, the National Flag will be flown at half maston all buildings where the National Flag is flown regularly and there will be no official entertainment on thesetwo days.